Further Reading

Apr 2

Written By James Chandler

Abinder, Tyler. Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know Nothings and the Politics of the 1850s. Oxford University Press, 1992.

Barthes, Roland. Mythologies. Trans. Richard Howard. Hill and Wang, 2012.

Brown, Wendy. Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution. Princeton University Press, 2017.

Colbrook, Claire. Irony. Routledge, 2004.

Field, Laura K. Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right. Princeton University Press, 2025.

Hofstadter, Richard. Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, The Paranoid Style in American Politics, Uncollected Essays 1956–1965. Ed. Sean Wilentz. Library of America, 2020.

Hutchins, Robert Maynard. The Higher Learning in America. Routledge, 1995.

Lear, Jonathan. A Case for Irony. Harvard University Press,2014.

McLaughlin, Sarah. Authoritarians in the Academy: How the Internationalization of Higher Education and Borderless Censorship Threaten Free Speech. John Hopkins University Press, 2025.

Mill, John Stuart. “De Tocqueville on Democracy in America.” Essays on Politics and Society. Volume 18. Collected Works of John Stuart Mill .Ed. John M. Robson. University of Toronto Press, 1977.

Mill, John Stuart.[[[Chicago says no more em dashes—repeat author name.]]] “The Spirit of the Age.” In The Spirit of the Age: Victorian Essays, ed. Gertrude Himmelfarb. Yale University Press, 2007.

Rorty, Richard. Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity. Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Roth, Michael S. Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters. Yale University Press, 2015.

Stern, Kenneth. The Conflict Over the Conflict: How the Israel/Palestine Campus Debate Is Eviscerating Academic Freedom. New Jewish Press, 2020.

Swift, Jonathan. “A Modest Proposal.” In The Essential Writings of Jonathan Swift, ed. Claude Rawson and Ian Higgins. Norton, 2010.

Tocqueville, Alexis de. Democracy in America. Trans. Arthur Goldhammer. Library of America, 2004.

Veblen, Thorstein. The Higher Learning in America: The Annotated Edition. Ed. Richard F. Teichgraeber III. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015.

Voss-Hubbard, Mark. Beyond Party: Cultures of Antipartisanship in Northern Politics Before the Civil War. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.

James Chandler is William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of English and Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. His publications include England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism, An Archaeology of Sympathy: The Sentimental Mode in Literature and Cinema, and Doing Criticism: Across Literary and Screen Arts. He is a fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Irish Academy.

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